First I gotta say this is one of my favorites by far.
My take on the song isn't totally clear buuuut here it goes
Alright soooo, in the first verse he had a dream about a girl who he doesn't recognize, and everyone else in the dream is a stranger as well. He says the girl is beautiful, then he seems to wake up and realize that it's a girl he likes/loves (?) and says that she's the same in the dream as she is in real life (beautiful).
In the second verse he goes on about the dream, and how she loved everyone "like a sovereign," meaning she must have appeared very friendly, etc., but then he says "half magnanimous, half unimpressed," which means she really wasn't all that impressed with the people she "loved like a sovereign." (?) When he says "I was talking too much, I was trying too hard," he is explaining how he was trying too hard to impress her, when really he wouldn't have to do much at all to impress this girl. And then once again, he realizes the dream is just like it is in real life.
I don't have much else about the rest of the song... Although, one of my favorite lines is "you are the answer to the question that is me," quite obviously meaning she and him are meant to be.
So that's my input on some of the song. The question marks are things that others might not understand, but since it's coming out of my head, I know what I mean. I just can't exactly say it right, haha.
First I gotta say this is one of my favorites by far.
My take on the song isn't totally clear buuuut here it goes
Alright soooo, in the first verse he had a dream about a girl who he doesn't recognize, and everyone else in the dream is a stranger as well. He says the girl is beautiful, then he seems to wake up and realize that it's a girl he likes/loves (?) and says that she's the same in the dream as she is in real life (beautiful).
In the second verse he goes on about the dream, and how she loved everyone "like a sovereign," meaning she must have appeared very friendly, etc., but then he says "half magnanimous, half unimpressed," which means she really wasn't all that impressed with the people she "loved like a sovereign." (?) When he says "I was talking too much, I was trying too hard," he is explaining how he was trying too hard to impress her, when really he wouldn't have to do much at all to impress this girl. And then once again, he realizes the dream is just like it is in real life.
I don't have much else about the rest of the song... Although, one of my favorite lines is "you are the answer to the question that is me," quite obviously meaning she and him are meant to be.
So that's my input on some of the song. The question marks are things that others might not understand, but since it's coming out of my head, I know what I mean. I just can't exactly say it right, haha.
That's also one of my favorite lyrics of all time(:
That's also one of my favorite lyrics of all time(: